The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-29
INVITING MANUFACTURERS
INTERESTS FROM THE
EAQN

The newspapers IN the neIghD0rlng
cities and villages are setting forth the
advantages Of their respective loca-
tons for manufacturing enterprises.
Mechanics and manufacturing indus
tries in the crowded towns and cities
in the east are seeking more room,
cheaper land and lower rents. These
very naturally turn their attention
west to where the tide of population is
constantly tending. 1t is entirely le-
gitimate for every western city to
herald the inducements it can offer to
secure from the east a share of the
western business tide. AS it respects
the business advantages held out by
other cities, they have a favorable and
inviting showing, but it is difficult to
discover where any of them in point
of location and business facilities are
better situated than KenOsha The
harbor advantages of KenOsha, afford
ing facilities for water navigation
on the great chain of lakes, are
not surpassed by any city on the lake
shore. Certainly its situation for re-
ceiving heavy freights and transport
ing them is superior to any inland city.
1t has been understood that the well
established business men of this city
are disposed to encourage new enter
prises here, such as are calculated to
afford employment to mechanics and
laboring men. There is a business
organization in this city. One of its
professed objects is to encourage and
aid new industries. There appears to
be much activity on the part of some
business associations in western cities
to enlarge the area of their manufac-
turing industries by drawing on the
surplus in eastern towns and cities.
This justifable policy for any young
and enterprising western city.
1t is not many years since Wisconsin
and other western states began to
manufacture agricultural machinery
and implements to supply home de.
mand, yet this demand is still met in
part by states much farther east. 1t
is still later since Wisconsin found a
market on the Pacific side of the coun-
try. The vast intervening country
west and northwest this side and be-
yond the Rocky Mountains, now but
thinly inhabited, is destined to be peo-
piled with millions Of agriculturalists,
who will create an incalculable demand
for machinery. 1t is no wild predic-
ton to declare that the day is approach
ing when hand labor on improved
farms will be far less required than at
present. The application of new
motive power and improved machinery
viii enable the farmer to stand by and
direct the operations of machine labor,
as the Southern planter was accustom-
ed to dictate to his slaves on the plan
tation. The apprehension of some
persons that the manufacture of
threshing machines. reapers, mowers
and all the varieties of agricultural
implements is likely to be overdone are
entirely mistaken. 1t will take more
than two generations yet to supply the
region of country here indicated with
the implements of husbandry, to say
nothing Of other great industries.
Eastern manufacturers in any of the
staple articles of necessity have in
ducements to locate here in the west.
nearer the great center of demand for
their goods aud wares. While, there
fore, there may be degree of selfish
ness in inviting eastern industries TO
come west, it must be apparent that
it is for their interests to accept such
invitation.